Simulated foraging in the wild, protective contact... In this way, the Singapore Zoo enables peaceful coexistence between humans and elephants

Singapore Zoo is known worldwide as an "open" zoo where the zoo provides a living environment similar to a wild habitat for animals. Singapore Zoo has an Asian Elephant Park where the elephant herds can maintain their natural lives. While conserving wild elephants, Singapore Zoo is also participating in a research project at the Elephant Conservation Centre in Indonesia's Vekabas National Park to explore how humans and elephants can coexist peacefully in nature.

At the Asian Elephant Park at Singapore Zoo, the critically endangered Sumatran elephant and the largest Sri Lankan elephant in Asia are home to it.

Zoo target groups adopt a "protective contact" management method, in which keepers raise elephants across protective fences to maintain the nature of the elephant herd. The zoo provides each elephant with 150 kilograms of grass and leaves per day, but only 20 kilograms per hour, in multiple releases, in line with the frequency with which elephants eat in the wild.

The keepers also put feed and the elephants' favorite bananas, carrots, apples and other foods in a snack bag, allowing the elephants to hook out the food with their noses, simulating the way they forage in the wild.

In addition, singapore zoos are working with the Elephant Conservation Centre in Vekabas National Park in Indonesia to study how humans can stay at peace with elephants in nature without crossing borders. In the 1990s, the Elephant Conservation Centre was established in Vekabas National Park, and the Singapore Zoo was directly involved in related research projects through funding. Staff conduct community education, regular patrols and monitoring activities in and around Vekabas National Park to spread conservation knowledge. At the same time, extensive training of mahouts and the establishment of elephant response teams. The response team patrols the forest and acts as a deterrent to human trespasses into the park. At the same time, the response team used domesticated elephants in conservation centers to drive wild elephants from fields and villages back to parks, reducing direct human intervention and achieving peaceful coexistence between humans and elephants.

Source: CCTV news client